Review of the Movie, Coach Carter

The movie Coach Carter is primarily based on a accurate story about Ken Carter, a man who is asked to coach the basketball team at Richmond Higher College, a public school in a poor neighborhood of California exactly where he also played and was a star player. All through the movie, Carter teaches his players respect, discipline, and the significance of education.

At the first practice, Carter quickly learns the players are rude and disrespectful towards him. He emphasizes the significance of respect by calling all his players “sir” and telling them that he will respect them as lengthy as they respect him back. I consider respect is a essential trait to teach athletes when coaching because it not only applies in sports but also everywhere else. Everyone should be taught how to respect other individuals and be a better person.

Carter also teaches his group about discipline. At the 1st practice he offers each and every player a contract. By signing the contract, they are agreeing to follow all the guidelines he has set out for his players such as being on time and maintaining at least a 2.three GPA. If players fail to meet these needs, they face consequences and punishments as a group and are expected to do an excess quantity of push-ups and suicides. When Carter’s son wants to transfer schools and join Richmond’s team, Carter offers him the identical treatment as the rest of the players and doesn’t give him any particular treatment. He even expects his son to preserve a higher GPA than the rest of the team simply because he knows he is capable of it. Seeing how Carter dealt with having his own son on the group produced me realize that it is quite important to treat each and every player the same, even if it is your personal child. Favoritism could ruin your team and lead to your players to turn against you and really feel like they are becoming treated unfairly compared to how you treat your own son or daughter.

When Carter sees his players’ progress reports from their teachers, he becomes upset that the majority of them are failing at least one class or obtaining incompletes due to not attending class. To resolve this problem, he reminds his players that they all signed a contract and they are student athletes which indicates academics come 1st. Carter locks up the health club and sends the players to the library to study and do homework to support get their grades up. He even goes as far as cancelling games and keeping the fitness center on lock down. Following Carter cancels the most significant game of the season, parents grow to be outraged and complain to the school board. The school board then votes to finish the lockout. Carter then enters the gym to locate his players sitting in desks and studying as an alternative of playing. The players sooner or later get their grades up and get the opportunity to play once again. Even though they lose the championship game by two points, they nonetheless really feel achieved both athletically and academically. When coaching school sports, it is critical for coaches to recognize academics come before sports. There are several coaches that don’t care if their players have good grades they only care if they are good athletes. If I ever coached college sports I would make sure to emphasize the value of education.

An article titled “Richmond Rebound/High school basketball players hit books, coach lifts his lockout,” talks about Carter’s reasoning behind the lockout and also the opinions of people who each agree and disagree with Carter. Throughout an interview with Carter in the article titled “Just Get in touch with Him “Sir””, he talked about how he believed the movie portrayed his story effectively and also talked about self-speak and how he would ask his players, “What is it you fear?” He explains he asked this to get players’ self talk a lot more positive than unfavorable. Self-speak is an crucial point for coaches to concentrate on and will help with their players’ self-confidence. In a Q&A with Coach Carter, he talks about his philosophy and techniques he utilized for coaching Richmond Higher. He emphasized the importance on education and why he pushed his players so hard.

The movie and the articles I read taught me a lot about what kind of coach to be if I ever make a decision to coach again. I would concentrate on issues like respect, discipline, and education just like Carter did. It requires a lot to be a great coach and at times it aids to appear at other coaches’ philosophies and discover from them.